Cold play

Winter hibernation stores up trouble for the new year, when you’ll end up playing catch-up. Armed with fun winter challenges, smart training ideas and fresh goals, you can embrace winter and emerge fitter than ever next spring

MARK BAILEY

SMASH THAT WINTER CENTURY ➞ 100-mile rides count for much more in the colder months and leave you doubly satisfied CONQUERING A CHILLY ‘winter century’ (a 100-mile ride) will give you a soul-warming surge of satisfaction. While other riders are binge-watching Netflix in their pyjamas, you are the rosy-cheeked adventurer enjoying a glorious spin beneath electric blue winter skies. And when you get home for a hot bath, you can relax in the knowledge that your fitness is sky-high long before Big Ben has even chimed in the arrival of 2022. “It can be difficult to stay motivated as the warm weather becomes a distant memory and sportives wind down, so setting yourself a big winter challenge really helps,” says Phil Paterson, coach at Athlete Lab (athletelablondon.com). “A 100-mile ride is…

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